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Salesforce Interview Questions!

About Salesforce:

1. What is Cloud Computing ?
2. What is Salesforce?
3. What is Production?
4. What is production url?
5. What is sandbox?
6. What is sandbox url?
7. What are the types of Sandboxes?
8. What is Developer sandbox?
9. What is developer pro sandbox?
10. What is partial data sandbox?
11. What is Full copy sandbox?

Configuration
1. What is Track Field History?
2. What are the Activities in Salesforce?
3. How to Rename the tab?
4. How to display multiple columns after clicking on the tab?
5. What is the difference between ISBLANK() AND ISNULL()?
6. What is dependent picklist?
7. What is the architecture of the salesforce
8. What is the difference between 15 digit and 18 digit id in Salesforce?
9. What is Record Type?
10. What is the difference between detail page and edit page?
11. What is out of box functionality?
12. What are the type of tabs?
13. What is validation rule?
14. There are two fields, if the user populate two field values if we combine those values uniqueness should be maintained, how to achieve this without coding?
15. What are Governor Limits?
16. For which data type we can enable external id?
17. What is list view?
18. What is Inline editing?
19. How to disable Inline editing?
20. What is Enhanced list view?
21. What is search layout?
22. What is mini page layout and how to enable?
23. What is lead process?
24. What is sales process?
25. What is Support process?
26. What is web-to-lead?
27. What is Queue?
28. What is public group?
29. What are the Assignment rules?
30. What are Auto-Response Rules?
31. What are the Escalation rules?

Questions on Relationships
1. Is it possible to create the Master – Detail Relationship field for the child object which is having existing records?
2. Is it possible to convert Mater – Detail Relationship to Look Up Relationship?
3. Is it possible to delete junction – Object in case of Mater – Detail Relationship?
4. What will happen if we undelete the deleted Junction Object?
5. What will happen to child records if we delete a parent record in case of Lookup Relationship?
6. What will happen to child records if we delete a parent record in case of Master Detail Relationship?
7. What is Junction Object?
8. For a junction object if we delete one of the parent record what will happen to child records?

Users, Profiles and Permission Sets
1. Is it possible to delete the user in salesforce?
2. What is ‘Grant Account Login Access’? How to enable ‘Grant Account Login Access’
3. How to provide security for Meta-Data files (Schema)?
4. What is Profile?
5. What is Permission Set?
6. How to give permissions to two fields for different users who belongs to different profiles?
7. How many users are there in your project salesforce instance?
8. How to provide security for the Records(Instance)?
9. What is role?
10. What is OWD?
11. What is Grant Access Using Hierarchies?

Import Wizard and Data Loader
1. What is Import wizard?
2. What is Data Loader?
3. Which operations we can perform on dataloader?
4. Data loader or Import wizard supports which file format?
5. What is the filed mapping file format of the data loader?
6. How to insert null values into dataloader?
7. What is external ID?
8. Maximum batch size of data loader?
9. What is default batch size if we enable bulk API?

Workflows and Approvals Process
1. What are the different kinds of evaluation criteria’s (events)?
2. What is the difference between Created and everytime edited to meet the criteria and Created and edited to subsequently meet the criteria?
3. What are the types of rule criteria’s?
4. What is immediate workflow action?
5. What is time dependent workflow action?
6. For which event we can’t create time dependent workflow action?
7. What are the different kinds of workflow actions?
8. What are the types of email templates?
9. There is a timebased workflow which will update one of the fields if the criteria meet. User submits the record with valid criteria, workflow triggered so that the field update is queued in the ‘time based flow’ queue which will fire after one day. If the user modifies the record which is submitted before the scheduled date, after modification, a record criterion is not meeting. Whether the field will be updated or not in schedule date?
10. For the same scenario explained in the above question what happens when we deactivate or modify the criteria of the workflow to different criteria? Whether the field will be updated or not in schedule date?
11. Scenario: There are two workflow rules on the same object say namely wf1 and wf2. If wf1 fires then a field will be updated on the same object, if the field updated and due to this wf2 criteria meets then what will happen, wf2 will fire or not?
12. What is recursive workflow rule? How to avoid recursive workflow rules?
13. What is Approval Process?
14. How to configure Approval Process?
15. Scenario: After activating the approval process, I want to add one more step. Is it possible?

Reports and Dashboards
1. What is Report?
2. What are the types of Reports?
3. How many blocks we can create for join reports?
4. How many maximum groupings we can do for summary, matrix and join reports?
5. What is bucketing in reports?
6. How many records we can display on page for a report?

How to add error on visualforce page through apex class and through visualforce page?
How to add error through the trigger?
What the common deployment issues you know?
What are the best practices you follow and how is your thought process keeping the governor limits in mind to write trigger/classes?
How would you approach to write a test class? What are the best practices?
What is @testSetup? And it’s purpose? And how many we can have in a single test class?
What is your approach during peer code review?
What is the difference between dataloader and import wizard?
Methods in batch class, sIterable and getquereyloacator differences?